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" Everyone should be tested. Whenever they have a check-up, they should test for HIV, because if we can get to a point in our society where everyone is automatically tested, nobody will fall through the net. "

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" You have to acknowledge that films that have a strong concept and are easily marketed to people are the ones that stand the biggest chance of success. "

" Animation films are about entertainment and about fun for the whole family, and if you went too far down a dark path, it's not what people, I think, expect from a great animated film. "

" I think we all need to believe in hope: that if we have dreams and if we have ambitions and if we have skills and talents - that if you really put your heart into something and you work at it hard enough - that you can make your dreams come true. "

" I haven't done much art shopping in Vegas. It tends to be from galleries that are London- or L.A.- or New York-based. We've never had someone standing over our shoulder telling us something is a good investment. "

" We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That's a great role model. "

" I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff. "

" In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curable, but they're very, very highly treatable, and early information is power. The only thing - literally the only thing - that is different is the stigma. And we have to overcome it, because it is now the only reason people are dying. "

" My parents have been married for 50-plus years, and I wanted to have what they had. "

" We all live by example. "

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" People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it. "

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" I can't say to Elton, 'Hey, let's walk around the corner and have a coffee.' Someone as well-known as that can't go anywhere in the world without being recognised. Elton has written the soundtrack to a lot of people's lives, so they feel a kinship with him, so they come up, and that does colour things. "

" I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life. "

" I studied really, really hard, rather boringly. "

" Kids will often see something different and feel insecure about it because they don't understand it. "

" When you're in a relationship with a very famous person, you have to make compromises. "

" I'd spent my twenties trying to be everything to everybody. I had my family, my straight friends, and I was starting to develop a gay circle of friends. I was seeing some men, seeing some women, and trying to sort it all out. "

" I've had many friends over the years who have been in same-sex relationships, and the family denies hospital visitations when one is sick. Or when the estate is settled and people who have built a life together has everything taken away from them either by the families or the taxman. "

" I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian. "

" A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it. "

" When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek. "

" The past is past; what's gone on has gone on. "

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" We absolutely need more role models. I think we need more people to come forward and be proud of who they are. "

" Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division. "

" I think people get fearful of things they don't know or understand. "

" Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia. "

" I was neeeever a cool kid. "

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" The reality is, if a woman is married to man with a title, she gets a title. I think everybody should have the same opportunities and the same privileges and the same honours. "

" If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K. "